* ponderings possibly sparked by news cycle involving the cancellation of a satirist after intervention/ threatened intervention by the US government because if critical comments about the US president.

I see what you did there.

It's not quite 80 years since the end of the end of WW2, where the world joined together and promised NEVER AGAIN. That message, that promise to future generations has been forgotten in favour of money.

today parts of the media, traditional and social media, that do not care about the danger and division lack of robust moderation/ fact-checking/ due impartiality does to society as long as they make money that has really allowed the rise of the new far right to be so successful and so meteoric.

You need robust media. You need disinformation and propaganda to be challenged --- and in our current age - DEMONETISED.

It’s looking like the far-right’s best and the centre-left worst results since the war. And underscores the urgent need for all of us to stand firm against the rise of extremism - including Reform UK here.

In its final report S/1994/674, the same Commission described ethnic cleansing as “… a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.”

That is terrible!